Thread regarding Occidental Petroleum Corp. layoffs

The virus was just an excuse

So oil was 36.35 on 3/11 and we were all making our regular salaries, and then oil took a steep turn for the worse, and then started the climb back up to 5/15 price of 29.43. The day the pay cut was announced oil was 24.00. Today the price of oil is 37.27 as of now. That is a 55% increase in price. I understand the knee jerk reaction if oil is going to stay in the low teens, but that is just what it was a market reaction to some very weird times. Personally, I think they used the virus and oil glute to seize the opportunity to cut the pay, because they know they can't pay us our salaries at 40.00 oil. Which in itself shows you the poor planning that is going on. If not, why not give us our salaries back know at at 37.27. They sure the heck did not have a problem to cut when the price went down so fast. How about giving us back our full salaries and then adjust them back down as oil goes down, but never no more than 30%. On the other side raise them up from our normal salaries when oil goes over 37. Oh, I forgot it does not work that way, just the other. How about telling us a price per barrel target to get our full salaries back. The way it stands that could be 100.00 a barrel for all we know.

Perfectly stated, @3fgy+15fyUmna!

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Original sin was VH & EC doubling down on the Permian Shale Ponzi scheme every year from 20-6 through 2019, then doubling down again with APC.

Liars, charlatans and the Apache Mafia.

Coronavirus is the scapegoat but it was only catalyst that sped up the ultimate result.

Kayaking without a paddle.

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Post ID: @1yas+15jizLvV

@odh+15jizLvV You lost me after 27000. Please explain EXACTLY what trump has done to keep things together? Like please provide empirical, substantive data, enlighten me sage. It’s OBVIOUS the daily media coverage of COVID-19 impacted our economy, but due to the thugs dressed in blue k–ling our innocent black brothers, our media is focused on civil unrest, not COVID-19 anymore. If you’re only focused on looters (by the way, this country was built from looted land and looted resources by colonizers) instead of the elephant in the room, then you are part of the problem.

Now to steer away from politics, yes the Dow is doing amazing. I actually made a lot of money today on certain oil and gas penny stocks. Hopefully I can continue to ride this wave...by the way p-huck Oxy their bullying ways. I hope the management team gets their golden parachutes. Trickle down economics isn’t working well for you huh? Lol.

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Post ID: @gni+15jizLvV

Jui

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Post ID: @ktg+15jizLvV

Salaries are not coming back anytime soon. Our company has a huge debt burden and in order to survive needs to raise free cash flow. Management knows that the industry is down and the competition is not hiring. There is no fear of mass exodus. Maybe if oil price can stabilize in the $70 to $75 per bbl range, the industry will pickup and management will have to bring salaries back up. Until then, management is taking advantage of the situation and taking the opportunity to dial back costs

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Post ID: @akc+15jizLvV

mo–ns

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Post ID: @yqg+15jizLvV

tkp+15jizLvV its you're

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Post ID: @jcw+15jizLvV

@zxa+15jizLvV, what discipline are you in? I don’t think you understand the way it works. My bet is your a geologist.

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Post ID: @tkp+15jizLvV

What do we think Oxy is saving by cutting our salaries?
$100k/ yr (mean) x 11,000 employees x 30% cut
~$330MM per year savings. Good math? Bad math? Other factors?

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Post ID: @eth+15jizLvV

Stocks almost 20 today and oil 40, and the DOW up over 27000. What we have been through has been hell, and some of our society made it even worse by tearing down their own communities. For all the Trump haters that were blaming him for it all should now give him credit for keeping things together, but we know that will never happen. Call him what you want he is 10 times better than that old dumb a– Joe Biden. Now if I can get my salary back all will be headed in the right direction. First few hours of the day has been pretty good.

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Post ID: @odh+15jizLvV

And don’t forget the dividend cut adding another 360$ mil/quarter savings

My prediction is we will go up some in August, not all the way back to where it was before, and LAPC will be cut down to the se percentage. Say, 15% lower from our original salaries

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Post ID: @aqu+15jizLvV

Oxy Management states for every 1 dollar fluctuation in WTI its 260 million i think we've far superceded the 600 million we are over 2.6 billion in just the price of oil.

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Post ID: @zxa+15jizLvV

Savings target of $600mm has not been achieved. Once it is, maybe we’ll get our salaries back. Little to do with current oil prices.

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Post ID: @igt+15jizLvV

I feel your pain. Being to precise don’t help. It is not like there is an equation for when our salaries will comeback with this company. That will be far from any reasonable way and won’t Reflect the chaotic Oxy planning and poor decision making. In reality our salaries needs to be low so they can sell this company at a low SG&A while the EC get big fat bonuses. In PunkPetro VH said what keeps her up at nite is “how our employees are doing” so go ahead and do more for her!

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